• PoopingCough@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I don’t disagree with your overall point, but statistics like that are almost always heavily skewed because of high infant mortality rates

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      1 month ago

      The mortality rate during childbirth was pretty high for women on top of the infant rate. Childbirth as a whole dragged the numbers down.

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      28 days ago

      18th century france is also quite possibly the single worst place and point in time to use as a comparison, there’s a reason people beheaded monarchs.